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Alex Harris

About Alex

Alex is a partner in the Healthcare Systems & Services Practice. She has served healthcare providers on a broad range of issues, including corporate strategy, M&A, and operations and is a leader in the practice’s growth-capability area. She also has experience across a range of provider types, including public-sector clients, academic medical centers, and children’s hospitals.

Examples of Alex’s recent client work includes the following:

valuing an academic medical center system’s potential purchase of a local competing hospital system and advising the client on negotiating posture given likely competitive bids

developing the initial combined market-growth strategy for a health system jointly formed by a medical school and its affiliated teaching hospital

designing a major payor’s portfolio strategy for payment innovation, reviewing its portfolio of payment-innovation strategies, assessing the strategies for potential impact and scaling feasibility, and recommending changes to the approaches portfolio for better strategic-goal achievement

leading the specialty-access and patient-experience diagnostic for an academic medical center and supporting subsequent recommendation implementation

Prior to rejoining McKinsey in its Washington, DC, location, Alex was an investment analyst with Essex Woodlands, a growth-equity and venture-capital firm based in New York, where she focused on investments in healthcare services and medical technology. Alex was also a business analyst in McKinsey’s New Jersey office. Alex holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in economics and biomedical science.